# Your first thread

Source: https://www.hyperagent.com/docs/get-started/your-first-thread

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Do real work in five minutes with nothing configured.

Describe what you need the way you'd brief a capable new teammate, and the
agent researches, builds, and delivers. The specificity of what goes in sets
the quality of what comes out.

## Do the work [#do-the-work]

### Describe the job [#describe-the-job]

On the home page, type what you need into the composer. Bring a real task, and give it what a teammate would need: the goal, the audience, and any files, attached with **+**.



### Watch it work, or don't [#watch-it-work-or-dont]

Send it, and the agent gets to work: researching, browsing, running code, writing. The transcript shows every step as it happens, and the **Live** pill in the header means it's still going. The thread runs on the server, so closing your laptop changes nothing.

### Steer with specifics [#steer-with-specifics]

When the draft lands, correct it like you would a person: "shorter, lead with the number, drop the third section." Point at what's wrong and say what right looks like. Each correction sharpens everything after it.

### Open the finished work [#open-the-finished-work]

Outputs arrive as cards in the conversation. Click one and it fills the canvas beside the chat, ready to read, edit, or share. Everything also lands in your [Library](https://www.hyperagent.com/docs/concepts/library), findable long after you've forgotten which thread made it.



## Why threads work this way [#why-threads-work-this-way]

* **Each thread starts fresh.** No stale context from last week steering this week's work. What the agent should carry forward is explicit: memories, skills, and files you attach. [Threads →](https://www.hyperagent.com/docs/concepts/threads)
* **Everything in the thread stays available.** Every message, file, and result builds on the last, so a thread gets smarter about its own job as it goes.
* **When the work changes, start a new thread.** It costs nothing, because the finished work lives in your Library and the knowledge lives with the agent.

## FAQs [#faqs]

Something you actually need this week, with a real artifact at the end: a brief from your notes, a comparison table of vendors, a summary of a long document. Real stakes teach you the product faster than a toy prompt.

By design: each thread starts clean so nothing stale leaks in. When something should carry forward, save it as a memory, and it will be there in every thread. That's [lesson three](https://www.hyperagent.com/docs/get-started/teach-it-something).

Yes. The thread runs on the server, not in your browser tab. Come back on any device; it pauses only when it needs your input.

**Next:** the job was worth doing once, so make it repeatable. [Your first agent →](https://www.hyperagent.com/docs/get-started/your-first-agent)